KEY STEPS

Case studies on the application of gender-sensitive approaches and tools for understanding and
assessing impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change

Recognizing the importance of indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices, and gender-sensitive
approaches and tools for adaptation to climate change, the SBSTA, at its thirty-eighth
session, requested the secretariat, under the guidance of the Chair of the SBSTA and in collaboration
with relevant organizations, to prepare a technical paper, before SBSTA 39, on best practices and available
tools for the use of indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices for adaptation, and the application
of gender-sensitive approaches and tools for understanding and assessing impacts, vulnerability and
adaptation to climate change.

To enable a robust and comprehensive review within the technical paper, the secretariat requested Nairobi
work programme partners and organizations with relevant expertise and experiences to provide inputs.
Below is a table containing the case studies on the application of gender-sensitive approaches and tools
for understanding and assessing impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change contributed by
these organizations in response to this request.

To ensure that new, relevant and useful examples are included in this database, and the current
entries up to date, please send your suggestions for new entries and updates to nwp@unfccc.int.

The application of gender-sensitive approaches and tools for understanding and assessing
impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change